Preliminary figures indicate fewer people participated this time. Associated Press figures showed that about 118 million people had voted in the White House race, but that number will rise as more votes are counted. In 2008, 131 million people voted, according to the Federal Election Commission.

The news reports and anecdotal accounts all reported long lines and extreme waiting times to vote. There are posts in Freerepublic of people stating that they had never seen lines as long in all their years of voting. I understand that we are still counting and that the numbers will still increase, but it seems highly implausible that the number would be less. I cant think of a time when a sitting president was reelected with less votes. The total count currently is 116,543,973 ( per Drudge ), in 2008 it was 132,618,580, a difference of 16,074,607. ( http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html ) Houston we have a problem! Has the country just been stolen?

Yeah, I hope that we don’t get evidence of machine/results tampering, but cutting down the vote against Obama seems the way he won. A lot of people were out voting yesterday and there was a palpable feeling that Romney won. That was NOT the feeling during Obama/McCain.

And the long lines were not just for one day of voting, but for early voting as well.

I don’t think it was an accident that R observers were kicked out in the battleground states - even in violation of a court order in one instance. The known election fraud of a perjurious Official Certification of Nomination for Obama (confirmed by the Hawaii state registrar) was neither the first nor the last of the crimes committed in this election...

I was listening to an election expert on overnight radio and she was talking about a couple of states have it so that you cannot even match up number of registered voters vs voters until 45 days after the election. That even the auditing process is being killed, basically.

Even the UN people were SHOCKED the US doesn’t require ID most places, and it is almost a trust based system...and they are far left....

I was more enthusiastic for McCain than Romney. I neither donated nor campaigned for Romney. I did both for McCain. McCain was very strong on military issues and had a consistent record on pro-life and pro-marriage issues. Romney had no foreign policy record and formed no coherent foreign policy message. His dubious record on abortion and marriage are well-known and his campaign explicitly made it clear that they would do nothing to change the status quo on abortion. Most of the issues McCain gets picked on for from the right are beltway insider issues that the general public doesn’t care about, like campaign finance reform.

As of 12 AM Wednesday: 44,621,296 votes for Obama, 44,828,420 for Romney. Muncie StarPress Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ― Winston Churchill As `Senator Blutarski' out it, did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Well, just under half the country did just that ... I don't know about the rest of us who voted against Obama--but I'll spend the next four years fighting anyone I hear using the expressions "Hope and Change" and "Forward!" and any Republicans using the phrase "reach across the aisle" and "bipartisanship". The notion of being ashamed of my country was something I thought only Democrats felt, until last night. Half the country deserves what it has coming, and it deserves to get it good and hard.

Wikipedia says in 2008 the final tally of votes counted was 131.3 million, compared to 122.3 million in 2004.

Politico reported back on Wednesday, 11/5/2008 that the turnout was 130 million. So these current turnout numbers of 117 million are not likely to go up much judging by that early 2008 report being almost on the money.

Could voting machines be programmed to record the opposite of the voter’s choice? I’ll bet it could if one had access and a devious programmer at his disposal. Or perhaps it could be programmed to add a vote for Obama for every 10 that Romney gets. I don’t know how they did but I do know that they committed massive and systematic vote fraud and we will pay for years to come. Pray.

It is a true crime that we have allowed our electoral process to devolve the way we have. The first thing we have to do is fix it. We need to return to one day of voting with photo ID issued only to American citizens, paper ballots, and PURPLE INK. That’s priority #1. It can and must be done, though the chances of it greatly diminished last night.

In a preliminary peek at a few states, it appears the lower number of votes affected Obama more than Romney, and the lost votes so far appear to have been in the states affected by Hurricane Sandy. I haven’t compared Ohio yet.

We know that some machines were changing votes to Obama because voters caught it. How many did not and would the machine have to show you what it was doing? It would only have to happen in some key locations...like Philly where they threw out GOP poll watchers. 70+ of them. What do you think was going on there?

We also know of a case in Ohio where an election judge was tossed because he/she was letting unregistered voters vote on regular, not provisional ballots. How many of those votes were counted. We will probably never know.

Two questions: there were several reported cases of Republicans being kept out of polling places early in the day. Were machines 'front-loaded' with votes for democrats? Were Republican ballots that were cast early disposed of?

Can ANYONE answer those questions?

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posted on 11/07/2012 8:06:49 AM PST
by who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)

Even Obama knew he was defeated, utterly defeated, the night of November 5.

I disagree completely!!! Obama was well aware of what was going on. He and Biden were play acting so as to shift suspicion from the political malfeasance they and the MSM had orchestrated. My evidence? When Valerie Jarett was firing up her troops 3 or 4 days before the election, when the momentum was clearly going to Mitt, she spoke in no uncertain terms, "When we win the election." They knew. They all knew. The fix was in. This has been a complete takeover by folks who know exactly what they are doing.

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posted on 11/07/2012 8:21:28 AM PST
by LukeSW
(The truth shall make you free!)

Not really. The difference in the vote in Ohio was 100,763votes out of a total of 524,3841 votes or almost 2% of the vote. The difference in the vote in Florida was only 46,039 votes out of a total of 8,212,681 votes or 0.56% of the total vote. These numbers, especially Florida, are within the range of vote fraud. The MSM is ignoring this razor thin margin susceptible to the massive kind of vote fraud we’ve seen the Democrats perpetrate.

They also understand the voters, not only know them but have created and custom fit them for their purpose. They have done this through the educational system, welfare system, media, and now healthcare. Government controlled robots. But let’s face it, if all you have to do to continue to get government handouts is show up once every four years to vote.........that’s a gravy job.

The stuff about “stay calm” is also fishy - that democrats shouldn’t worry about the first wave of exit polling. Nobody who votes was supposed to even SEE the exit polling. If they were saying “stay calm”, it was the media they were talking to. Rush mentioned that somebody had told him that the exit pollers were told not to talk to any elderly whites. If that was true, they were manipulating what the media would see - leading the media (like Fox) to call the races before results were even in, and make it appear that there was nothing suspicious about the numbers even though the numbers did not fit the polling internals from before the election. Remember how they originally weren’t going to do any exit polling? Apparently they decided the results might look too fishy if they didn’t have exit polling to back up the trends.

Valerie Jarrett’s in-your-face confidence even when the momentum was with Romney and Benghazi was heatng up struck me immediately. She must have known that they could hide the fraud in such a way that Romney’s lawyers wouldn’t be able to do anything about it - I suspect by kicking out the R observers and tweaking the numbers in their absence, or maybe by messing with the software or mechanics on the machines. I remember reading how easily the machines can be rigged, to make the vote appear to be going to Romney but to actually tally for Obama. Without a paper trail there would be no way for Romney’s lawyers to prove anything. That could give Jarrett confidence. It could also enable a favorite analyst to get picture-perfect accuracy in predicting the election outcome, which gives them credibility for next time too...

Making sure the military ballots got destroyed in an airplane crash on the way to the soldiers and any provisional ballots that the military people filled out and sent, as instructed, got stuck in storage in Bahrain for over a month - was a way to ensure that paper ballots - which leave an auditable paper trail - wouldn’t cause problems.

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